Cyndi Lauper Biography & News

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About Cyndi Lauper

About Cyndi Lauper

When you hear the name Cyndi Lauper, chances are your brain conjures up the image of a thin girl with the big hair who became the superstar of the early MTV era. It's no accident her first album, which sold some five million copies, was titled "She's So Unusual." Lauper, hands down, became an icon of the era and was celebrated around the world.

You couldn't get through the 1980s (and beyond), it seemed, without Lauper's major hit "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" inundating your eardrums. Scores of teenage girls used the song as an anthem for self-expression. They dressed and danced like her, introducing a new wave of fashion into the decade. Furthermore, Lauper's fusion of genres – post-punk, reggae, pop, funk and new wave – helped to popularize the overall image of the punk movement in America and beyond.

Though Lauper never achieved the same kind of success generated by her debut album, no one will ever forget "Girls…," not to mention other songs like "Time After Time," "She Bop," and "All Through the Night." Her second album, "True Colors," marked a shift to a softer, more contemporary sound, and though the title track went to number one, the change lost some of her earlier fans.

Lauper was productive in the '90s, but her efforts were for naught as album after album performed poorly or failed to chart. She took a long hiatus from 1998 to 2003, returning to the studio for "At Last," a collection of pop standards, and later in 2005 she released "The Body Acoustic," a stripped-down take on pervious hits. Her tenth studio album, "Bring Ya to the Brink," bowed in 2008, and in 2010 came "Memphis Blues."

Currently, Lauper has been working with Sara Bareilles and NBC's Hoda Kotb on the collaboration of 'Truly Brave,' to help raise money for pediatric cancer research.

Cyndi Lauper Discography

Album name

Release date

To Memphis With Love

2011

Memphis Blues

2010

Floor Remixes

2009

True Colors: The Best of Cyndi Lauper

2009

Time After Time (The Cyndi Lauper Collection)

2009

Playlist: The Very Best of Cyndi Lauper

2009

Bring Ya to the Brink

2008

Gold: Greatest Hits

2008

Into the Nightlife

2008

The Very Best of Cyndi Lauper

2007

Collections

2006

2005-12-03: Lakewood Civic Auditorium, Lakewood, OH, USA

2005

The Best Of

2005

The Body Acoustic

2005

Shine

2004

The Essential Cyndi Lauper

2003

At Last

2003

The Great Cyndi Lauper

2003

Shine Remixes

2003

Shine

2001

Feels Like Christmas

2001

Media Markt Collection: Cyndi Lauper

2001

Time After Time: The Best Of

2000

Disco Inferno

1999

Wanna Have Fun

1998

Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life!

1998

Sisters of Avalon

1997

Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)

1995

Twelve Deadly Cyns... and Then Some

1994

Hat Full of Stars

1993

Who Let In the Rain

1993

The World Is Stone

1992

A Night to Remember

1989

My First Night Without You

1989

The Best Remixes

1989

True Colors

1986

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

1983

She's So Unusual

1983

Top 10 Cyndi Lauper Songs

Rank

Track Name

Play Count

Listener Count

1

Time After Time

137,666

49,573

2

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

117,041

45,498

3

True Colors

71,058

27,628

4

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

33,889

14,058

5

She Bop

30,398

12,169

6

All Through The Night

25,869

10,564

7

I Drove All Night

26,493

10,557

8

Money Changes Everything

17,393

7,315

9

Change Of Heart

14,461

5,753

10

When You Were Mine

14,021

5,707

News

Melissa Etheridge, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, Robin Thicke, Aloe Blacc, Bryan Adams, and more are set to appear at the 17th Annual Grammy Foundation Legacy Concert, taking place at Los Angeles’ Wilshire Ebell Theatre on February 5. Dubbed “Lean On Me: A Celebration of Music & Philanthropy”, the show will fall under the helm of…